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Commander

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Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy (clb) 383
Scion of Halaster
Commander creatures you own have "The first time you would draw a card each turn, instead look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your graveyard and the other back on top of your library. Then draw a card."
Legendary Enchantment - Background
Scion of Halaster (clb) 498

Commander

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Cantrip / Draw / Card Selection

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Consider
Surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Consider (tdc) 148
Dig Through Time
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Look at the top seven cards of your library. Put two of them into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in any order.
Instant
Dig Through Time (soc) 195
Frantic Search
Draw two cards, then discard two cards. Untap up to three lands.
Instant
Frantic Search (tdc) 153
Opt
Scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Draw a card.
Instant
Opt (fdn) 512
Preordain
Scry 2, then draw a card. (To scry 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them on the bottom and the rest on top in any order.)
Sorcery
Preordain (tdc) 161
Ransack the Lab
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Sorcery
Ransack the Lab (mh1) 103
Serum Visions
Draw a card. Scry 2.
Sorcery
Serum Visions (afc) 94
Sleight of Hand
Look at the top two cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the other on the bottom of your library.
Sorcery
Sleight of Hand (woe) 67
Strategic Planning
Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Sorcery
Strategic Planning (khm) 77
Tainted Indulgence
Draw two cards. Then discard a card unless there are five or more mana values among cards in your graveyard.
Instant
Tainted Indulgence (snc) 227
Thought Scour
Target player mills two cards.
Draw a card.
Instant
Thought Scour (jmp) 185
Treasure Cruise
Delve (Each card you exile from your graveyard while casting this spell pays for
.)
Draw three cards.
Sorcery
Treasure Cruise (mb2) 37

Cantrip / Draw / Card Selection

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Graveyard Casting / Recursion

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Archaeomancer
When this creature enters, return target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard to your hand.
Creature - Human Wizard
Archaeomancer (uma) 45
Dread Return
Return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Flashback—Sacrifice three creatures. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Sorcery
Dread Return (cmm) 637
River Kelpie
Whenever this creature or another permanent enters from a graveyard, draw a card.
Whenever a player casts a spell from a graveyard, draw a card.
Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)
Creature - Beast
River Kelpie (tdc) 166
Secrets of the Dead
Whenever you cast a spell from your graveyard, draw a card.
Enchantment
Secrets of the Dead (dka) 48
Stitch Together
Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.
Threshold — Return that card from your graveyard to the battlefield instead if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Sorcery
Stitch Together (fic) 286
Unearth
Return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Cycling
(
, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
Sorcery
Unearth (mh1) 113
Victimize
Choose two target creature cards in your graveyard. Sacrifice a creature. If you do, return the chosen cards to the battlefield tapped.
Sorcery
Victimize (mh3) 278
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
: Draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded an instant or sorcery card this way, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
, Sacrifice Vohar: You may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard this turn. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Activate only as a sorcery.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk Phyrexian
Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator (dmu) 226

Graveyard Casting / Recursion

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Graveyard Setup / Tutors

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Dream Harvest
Each opponent exiles cards from the top of their library until they have exiled cards with total mana value 5 or greater this way. Until end of turn, you may cast cards exiled this way without paying their mana costs.
Sorcery
Dream Harvest (ecl) 216
Fact or Fiction
Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.
Instant
Fact or Fiction (znc) 25
Gravebreaker Lamia
Lifelink
When this creature enters, search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle.
Spells you cast from your graveyard cost
less to cast.
Creature Enchantment - Snake Lamia
Gravebreaker Lamia (thb) 98
Oriq Loremage
: Search your library for a card, put it into your graveyard, then shuffle. If it's an instant or sorcery card, put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Creature - Human Warlock
Oriq Loremage (stx) 80
Otherworldly Gaze
Surveil 3. (Look at the top three cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Flashback
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
Instant
Otherworldly Gaze (mid) 67

Graveyard Setup / Tutors

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Interaction

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Aetherize
Return all attacking creatures to their owner's hand.
Instant
Aetherize (scd) 42
Bitter Triumph
As an additional cost to cast this spell, discard a card or pay 3 life.
Destroy target creature or planeswalker.
Instant
Bitter Triumph (tdc) 173
Drown in the Loch
Choose one —
• Counter target spell with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
• Destroy target creature with mana value less than or equal to the number of cards in its controller's graveyard.
Instant
Drown in the Loch (eld) 188
Feed the Swarm
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Sorcery
Feed the Swarm (fdn) 712
Go for the Throat
Destroy target nonartifact creature.
Instant
Go for the Throat (j25) 447
Infernal Grasp
Destroy target creature. You lose 2 life.
Instant
Infernal Grasp (soc) 216
Negate
Counter target noncreature spell.
Instant
Negate (rix) 44
Pongify
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Ape creature token.
Instant
Pongify (tdc) 160
Rapid Hybridization
Destroy target creature. It can't be regenerated. That creature's controller creates a 3/3 green Frog Lizard creature token.
Instant
Rapid Hybridization (soc) 198
Reality Shift
Exile target creature. Its controller manifests the top card of their library. (That player puts the top card of their library onto the battlefield face down as a 2/2 creature. If it's a creature card, it can be turned face up any time for its mana cost.)
Instant
Reality Shift (ecc) 68
Resculpt
Exile target artifact or creature. Its controller creates a 4/4 blue and red Elemental creature token.
Instant
Resculpt (soc) 201
Spell Pierce
Counter target noncreature spell unless its controller pays
.
Instant
Spell Pierce (neo) 80
Vraska's Fall
Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker of their choice and gets a poison counter.
Instant
Vraska's Fall (one) 116
Wail of the Forgotten
Descend 8 — Choose one. If there are eight or more permanent cards in your graveyard as you cast this spell, choose one or more instead.
• Return target nonland permanent to its owner's hand.
• Target opponent discards a card.
• Look at the top three cards of your library. Put one of them into your hand and the rest into your graveyard.
Sorcery
Wail of the Forgotten (lci) 343

Interaction

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Land

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Bojuka Bog
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
: Add
.
Land
Bojuka Bog (eoc) 149
Castle Vantress
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island.
: Add
.
,
: Scry 2.
Land
Castle Vantress (dsc) 267
Cephalid Coliseum
: Add
. This land deals 1 damage to you.
Threshold —
,
, Sacrifice this land: Target player draws three cards, then discards three cards. Activate only if there are seven or more cards in your graveyard.
Land
Cephalid Coliseum (tdc) 349
Choked Estuary
As this land enters, you may reveal an Island or Swamp card from your hand. If you don't, this land enters tapped.
: Add
or
.
Land
Choked Estuary (lcc) 322
Command Tower
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Land
Command Tower (tmc) 63
Darkwater Catacombs
,
: Add
.
Land
Darkwater Catacombs (clb) 889
Drowned Catacomb
This land enters tapped unless you control an Island or a Swamp.
: Add
or
.
Land
Drowned Catacomb (msc) 469
Evolving Wilds
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Evolving Wilds (mid) 261
Exotic Orchard
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Land
Exotic Orchard (c16) 295
Island
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Island
Island (war) 253
Myriad Landscape
This land enters tapped.
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Myriad Landscape (c19) 261
Mystic Sanctuary
(
: Add
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Islands.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Land - Island
Mystic Sanctuary (soc) 388
Nephalia Drownyard
: Add
.
,
: Target player mills three cards.
Land
Nephalia Drownyard (lcc) 344
Path of Ancestry
This land enters tapped.
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)
Land
Path of Ancestry (cmr) 353
Riptide Laboratory
: Add
.
,
: Return target Wizard you control to its owner's hand.
Land
Riptide Laboratory (mh2) 303
River of Tears
: Add
. If you played a land this turn, add
instead.
Land
River of Tears (clb) 912
Sunken Hollow
(
: Add
or
.)
This land enters tapped unless you control two or more basic lands.
Land - Island Swamp
Sunken Hollow (scd) 322
Surveillance Room
When this land enters, surveil 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put it into your graveyard.)
: Add
.
,
: Add one mana of any color.
Land
Surveillance Room (msh) 274
Swamp
(
: Add
.)
Basic Land - Swamp
Swamp (eld) 259
Tainted Isle
: Add
.
: Add
or
. Activate only if you control a Swamp.
Land
Tainted Isle (dsc) 303
Terramorphic Expanse
, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Land
Terramorphic Expanse (sos) 265

Land

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MDFC / Spell-Land Flex

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Hagra Mauling
This spell costs
less to cast if an opponent controls no basic lands.
Destroy target creature.
Instant
Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106Hagra Mauling // Hagra Broodpit (znr) 106
Silundi Vision
Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal an instant or sorcery card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.
Instant
Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle (znr) 80
Waterlogged Teachings
Search your library for an instant card or a card with flash, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Instant
Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261Waterlogged Teachings // Inundated Archive (mh3) 261

MDFC / Spell-Land Flex

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Payoff / Finisher

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Archmage Emeritus
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, draw a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Archmage Emeritus (tdc) 145
Chrome Host Seedshark
Flying
Whenever you cast a noncreature spell, incubate X, where X is that spell's mana value. (Create an Incubator token with X +1/+1 counters on it and "
: Transform this token." It transforms into a 0/0 Phyrexian artifact creature.)
Creature - Phyrexian Shark
Chrome Host Seedshark (eoc) 68
Emet-Selch of the Third Seat
Spells you cast from your graveyard cost
less to cast.
Whenever one or more opponents lose life, you may cast target instant or sorcery card from your graveyard. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead. Do this only once each turn.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Elder
Emet-Selch of the Third Seat (fic) 81
Haughty Djinn
Flying
Haughty Djinn's power is equal to the number of instant and sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Creature - Djinn
Haughty Djinn (tdc) 154
Murmuring Mystic
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Bird Illusion creature token with flying.
Creature - Human Wizard
Murmuring Mystic (j25) 107
Octavia, Living Thesis
This spell costs
less to cast if you have eight or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard.
Ward

Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, target creature has base power and toughness 8/8 until end of turn.
Legendary Creature - Elemental Octopus
Octavia, Living Thesis (c21) 29
Rise from the Tides
Create a tapped 2/2 black Zombie creature token for each instant and sorcery card in your graveyard.
Sorcery
Rise from the Tides (plst) GN2-23
Talrand, Sky Summoner
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 2/2 blue Drake creature token with flying.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Merfolk
Talrand, Sky Summoner (cmm) 124

Payoff / Finisher

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Ramp / Cost Reduction

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Arcane Signet
: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Artifact
Arcane Signet (msc) 192
Curious Homunculus
: Add
. Spend this mana only to cast an instant or sorcery spell.
At the beginning of your upkeep, if there are three or more instant and/or sorcery cards in your graveyard, transform this creature.
Creature - Homunculus
Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54Curious Homunculus // Voracious Reader (emn) 54
Dimir Signet
,
: Add
.
Artifact
Dimir Signet (scd) 263
Jace's Sanctum
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, scry 1.
Enchantment
Jace's Sanctum (ori) 61
Sol Ring
: Add
.
Artifact
Sol Ring (msc) 214
Talisman of Dominance
: Add
.
: Add
or
. This artifact deals 1 damage to you.
Artifact
Talisman of Dominance (msc) 219
Thunderclap Drake
Flying
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast.
, Sacrifice this creature: When you next cast an instant or sorcery spell this turn, copy it for each time you've cast your commander from the command zone this game. You may choose new targets for the copies.
Creature - Drake
Thunderclap Drake (soc) 204
Wayfarer's Bauble
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (fic) 372

Ramp / Cost Reduction

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Value Creature / Flex

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Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
Flash
You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Gandalf as your Ring-bearer, draw a card.
Legendary Creature - Wizard Avatar
Gandalf, Friend of the Shire (ltr) 308
Wavebreak Hippocamp
Whenever you cast your first spell during each opponent's turn, draw a card.
Creature Enchantment - Fish Horse
Wavebreak Hippocamp (j25) 387
Windrider Wizard
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant, sorcery, or Wizard spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.
Creature - Human Wizard
Windrider Wizard (znr) 87

Value Creature / Flex

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Maybeboard

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Consuming Tide
Each player chooses a nonland permanent they control. Return all nonland permanents not chosen this way to their owners' hands. Then you draw a card for each opponent who has more cards in their hand than you.
Sorcery
Consuming Tide (vow) 53
Deekah, Fractal Theorist
Magecraft — Whenever you cast or copy an instant or sorcery spell, create a 0/0 green and blue Fractal creature token. Put X +1/+1 counters on it, where X is that spell's mana value.
: Target creature token can't be blocked this turn.
Legendary Creature - Human Wizard
Deekah, Fractal Theorist (soc) 193
Docent of Perfection
Flying
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 1/1 blue Human Wizard creature token. Then if you control three or more Wizards, transform this creature.
Creature - Horror Insect
Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (inr) 62Docent of Perfection // Final Iteration (inr) 62
Fellwar Stone
: Add one mana of any color that a land an opponent controls could produce.
Artifact
Fellwar Stone (soc) 347
Mind Stone
: Add
.
,
, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.
Artifact
Mind Stone (dmr) 232
Mindsplice Apparatus
Flash
At the beginning of your upkeep, put an oil counter on this artifact.
Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost
less to cast for each oil counter on this artifact.
Artifact
Mindsplice Apparatus (one) 63
Night's Whisper
You draw two cards and lose 2 life.
Sorcery
Night's Whisper (msc) 158
Notion Rain
Surveil 2, then draw two cards. Notion Rain deals 2 damage to you. (To surveil 2, look at the top two cards of your library, then put any number of them into your graveyard and the rest on top of your library in any order.)
Sorcery
Notion Rain (grn) 193
Rewind
Counter target spell. Untap up to four lands.
Instant
Rewind (mm3) 47

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